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Jenkins city, Kentucky: commercial real estate data.
Jenkins city is a Census city of 1,406 people across 8.84 square miles of land, in Letcher County. Median household income is $27,200, 60.4 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $30,000.
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Jenkins
What Jenkins is
- Census place typecity
- Land area8.84 sq mi
- Water area0.03 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land159
- County holding the largest share of its areaLetcher County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Jenkins
How many people live in Jenkins
- Population1,406
- Median age42.9
- Population under 18284 plus or minus 100
- Share under 1820.2 percent plus or minus 5.9
- Population 65 and over296 plus or minus 81
- Share 65 and over21.1 percent
- Households694
- Family households363 plus or minus 87
- Share of households that are families52.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Jenkins
Income and work in Jenkins
- Median household income$27,200 plus or minus $8,046
- Per capita income$22,925
- Civilian labor force500 plus or minus 111
- Employed470 plus or minus 113
- Unemployed30 plus or minus 26
- Unemployment rate6.0 percent plus or minus 5.0
- Adults 25 and over1,080
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher82.1 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher14.5 percent plus or minus 6.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree1.6 percent plus or minus 1.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Jenkins
- Housing units967
- Occupied units694
- Vacant units273 plus or minus 98
- Vacancy rate28.2 percent plus or minus 9.4
- Owner occupied419 plus or minus 109
- Renter occupied275 plus or minus 82
- Ownership rate60.4 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$80,200 plus or minus $19,456
- Median gross rent, monthly$455 plus or minus $169
- Annual rent as a share of median income20.1 percent plus or minus 9.5
- Single family units676
- Share single family69.9 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more164 plus or minus 63
- Share in buildings of two or more17.0 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Mobile homes93 plus or minus 44
- Median year structure built1953
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Jenkins
How Jenkins gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute392 plus or minus 103
- Commuting under 15 minutes128 plus or minus 55
- Share commuting under 15 minutes32.7 percent plus or minus 11.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more146 plus or minus 61
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more37.2 percent plus or minus 12.2
- Drove alone64.9 percent
- Carpooled16.6 percent plus or minus 8.0
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home16.6 percent plus or minus 11.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Jenkins
SBA loans in Jenkins (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$30,000
- Average approval$30,000
- Median approval$30,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$30,000
- Largest approval$30,000
- Jobs supported2
- Jobs per approval2.0
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term60 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises100.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 1 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Letcher County, not Jenkins
Letcher County context, not Jenkins figures
These are Letcher County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Jenkins measurements.
- Establishments in Letcher County277
- Employment at those establishments, Letcher County3,171
- Covered employment, Letcher County4,258
- Average annual pay, Letcher County$45,995
- Average weekly wage, Letcher County$885
- Housing units permitted, Letcher County1
- Of those, single family, Letcher County1
- County product, 2024, Letcher County$538,796,000
- County product change over the prior year, Letcher County-1.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Letcher County$34,433
Every figure in this section is published for Letcher County as a whole and is not a measurement of Jenkins. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Jenkins questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Jenkins, Kentucky?
1,406, in 694 households. Jenkins city covers 8.84 square miles of land, which is 159 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Jenkins in?
Letcher County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Jenkins?
$27,200. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $80,200. Median gross rent is $455 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Jenkins businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $30,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $30,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Jenkins, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Jenkins borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Jenkins. only 1 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Jenkins figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Letcher County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Jenkins.
Is zoning published for Jenkins?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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